Phil Price
Phil Price (born 1965) is a New Zealand artist best known for his large-scale kinetic sculptures. Price's work incorporates engineering and design in works inspired by the natural world. Price received a BFA degree in sculpture from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts.
Phil Price
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- Born
- 14 June 1965
- Birthplace
- Nelson, New Zealand
- Field
- Kinetic sculptures
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Education
- University of Canterbury
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Phil Price (born 1965) is a New Zealand artist best known for his large-scale kinetic sculptures. Price's work incorporates engineering and design in works inspired by the natural world. Price received a BFA degree in sculpture from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts.
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• Born — 14 June 1965 • Birthplace — Nelson, New Zealand • Field — Kinetic sculptures
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• Illustration — Cytoplasm, Auckland, New Zealand • Illustration — Big Snake, Canberra • Illustration — United Divided, Palmerston North • Illustration — Zephyrometer, Wellington • Illustration — Dinornis Maximus, Canberra (Wind kinetic sculpture) • Illustration — Choice of Passage, London Circuit, Canberra • Illustration — Droplet, Phillip ACT • Illustration — Journeys, Canberra Airport (Wind kinetic sculpture)
A kinetic sculpture designed to show how windy it is here... when the wind blows the sculpture tilts... hence the two pivots, the further it tilts the windier it is. The big orange bulb at the end stops it tilting over and hitting the ground. More info here - a href=" http: www.sculpture.org.nz/engine/SID/10023/AID/1021.htm " Wellington Zephyr! /a
Steve Sigley from Wellington, New Zealand · Zephyr
Phil Price kinetic sculpture, McClelland Gallery, Melbourne/Australia. Engineering assistance by a certain Lincoln Frost.
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1965
Phil Price born at Nelson.
Public sculptures
• Big Snake (2020). Constitution Square, Canberra. • Liberace (2019). Permanently installed on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. • Ipomoea (2019). Temporarily installed during the Sculpture by the Sea festival. Cottesloe Beach, Perth, Australia. • Snake (2013). Temporarily installed during the Sculpture by the Sea festival in Bondi, Sydney, Australia. Acquired by the City of Aarhus, where it is currently installed in the public square Mølleparken. • Tree of Life. (2013). McClelland Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria, Australia. • Journeys (2012). Canberra, Australia. Permanently installed facing the Canberra Airport. • Flip (2010). Taupō, New Zealand. Permanent commission by the Taupo Sculpture Trust. • Organism (2009). Wellington, New Zealand. Part of the Victoria University of Wellington permanent collection. • Dinornis Maximus (2008). Canberra, Australia. Permanently installed on the median strip of Yarra Glen Drive, Woden. • Knowledge (2006). Christchurch, New Zealand. Permanently installed outside the Upper Riccarton Library in Christchurch. • Nucleus (2006). Christchurch, New Zealand. Permanently installed at the meeting point of High, Lichfield and Manchester streets. • Zephyrometer (2004). Evans Bay, Wellington. The work was struck by lightning in 2014, resulting in significant damage. It was repaired and restored the following year. • Protoplasm (2002). Wellington, New Zealand. • Rakaia salmon statue (1991). Rakaia, Canterbury, New Zealand. • Wiggly Wagon and other sculptures (2003), Queen Mary Hospital, Hanmer Springs. Removed in 2005. • Cytoplasm. Auckland. • Ratytus. McClelland Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria, Australia.
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• Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa • Victoria University of Wellington
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